Sounds like Kerry read Stephen Pinker's last book.
Of course it's right in character for Kerry, in his inevitable stentorian and self-satisfied drone, to proclaim a world like ours, as awful as it us-- in which a whole slew of Pinkers are the causuists for the rest of us wretched folk-- to be...

pat Buchanan is so old he thinks that you can only cross the Atlantic is square rigged sailing vessels and that it would take a foreign power a year to assemble a fleet and six months to make the crossing.

My fantasy involves Charles Krauthammer having been put into US Army Uniform being rolled down a sand dune into a group of those Muslims he's always trying to get me and my children to go fight. I have another about John Hagee that features kidnapping and intentionally giving myself a case of exp...

"Between the Party of Stupid and the Party of Evil, there’s little choice left at the ballot box anymore, but let’s delete this nonsense about one party or the other being the war party. They both are, and a pox on both their houses."
I think Mr. Buchanan is aware of that. He's not exactly ...

"Listen for long to GOP foreign policy voices, and you can hear calls for war on ISIS, al-Qaida, Boko Haram, the Houthi rebels, the Assad regime, the Islamic Republic of Iran, to name but a few."
This is manifestly and totally bigger than the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. This is madness...

Page 176- " Solarz convinced Congress that the best way to avoid war was to vote for war "
Solarz sent by AIPAC to argue to Congress - " Saddam thinks we are bluffing . He would back down in an anstant if he knew we were serious"
Congress was not interested in war
Arabs and Palestinrfor beginne...

The Chinese diplomat said it right in another article:
"The United States is unwilling to see its presence in any part of the world being weakened, but the fact is its resources are limited, and it will be to some extent hard work to sustain its influence in external affairs, "
Qu Xing, C...

Our leaders should not only play the game but watch the episode of Seinfeld titled the the "Label Maker" In the episode Kramer and Newman are playing Risk. Kramer is just about to defeat Newman and says; "You know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting duck. A road apple, Newman. The Ukraine is we...

News flash for Mr. Buchanan: Mr. Obama has been driving the military train for a good while now. His change in tactics from ground invasion to perpetual drone strikes is not what a reasonable person would classify as a peace movement. Between the Party of Stupid and the Party of Evil, there's l...

Amidst all this beating of war drums, has anyone asked who midwifed the birth of this fearsome ISIS, and why American guns are not turned on them? Wait, it would be the same ally who supplied 15 of the 19 murderers of 9/11.

I wish some of our leaders had played Risk when they were growing up.
If they had, they would remember the continent of Asia, with the Middle East and all the rest of it, as a place that is practically impossible to manage. It is a place to get bogged down, lose your armies, and waste your ...

The way the Whigs went was to convene in Ripon, Michigan, not invite the southern Whigs(it was too far to go for them anyway) in 1854 and call themselves Republicans. They positioned themselves for the future. They repudiated the "cotton whigs" of which there were many, but seldom enough to get...

The President strikes many people as "Not one of us." Rudy just spoke what millions of Americans thought to themselves and confided in each other. The President does not have a right to expect all citizens to like or think well of him. Respect and trust is earned, and this President seems not ...

"The Night of the Avaricious Actuary"
West and Gordon investigate a series of explosions that have destroyed several palatial homes. They discover that the destruction is being caused by a giant tuning fork radiating powerful sound waves.
Rudy keeps playing the same old tune. We have the tun...

Every American has a different vision of America. Obama hates our vision of America just like we hate his vision of America.
So, all it depends on which vision of America we are talking about. Obama's vision of America is dominated by Jewish and Homo Liberals who share some privileges with op...

Pat, Rudy is the worst sort of Christian, with a past not only involved in gross subversion of our republic...
http://ronaldthomaswest.com/2013/08/28/the-mojahedin-e-khalq/
...but a sponsor of state terrorism. Got more high profile criminals to defend? I might have an analysis.

Impeachment is being brought up by Republicans outraged over Barack Obama’s usurpations of power and unilateral rewriting of laws. And Obama is taunting John Boehner and the GOP: “So sue me.”

Democrats are talking impeachment to rally a lethargic base to come out and vote this fall to prevent Republicans from taking control of the Senate, and with it the power to convict an impeached president.

Still, Republicans should drop the talk of impeachment.

For the GOP would gain nothing and risk everything if the people began to take seriously their threats to do to Barack Obama what Newt Gingrich’s House did to Bill Clinton.

The charges for which a president can be impeached and removed from office, are “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

With Bill Clinton, the impeachers had a solid case of perjury.

With Richard Nixon, they had a preponderance of evidence that, at least for a time, he had sought to obstruct justice in the investigation of the Watergate break-in.

Article II of the impeachment of Richard Nixon was for misuse of the IRS in what turned out to be futile and failed attempts to have the agency harass political enemies by having them audited.

As yet there is no evidence Obama knew of the IRS plot to delay and deny tax exemptions to Tea Party groups, which would be an abuse of power and a trampling upon the constitutional rights of Tea Partiers, who were denied the equal protection of the laws.

The GOP response to the lost emails of Lois Lerner and crashed computers that went missing should be a drumbeat of demands for the appointment of an independent counsel, not an impeachment committee in the House.

Obama claims he did not learn of the IRS abuse until years after it began, and weeks after his White House staff learned of it.

In the absence of those emails, the claim cannot be refuted.

In the Benghazi scandal, the president’s defense is the same.

He had no idea what was going on. And cluelessness appears here to be a credible defense. Two weeks after the Benghazi atrocity, Obama was at the U.N. still parroting the Susan Rice line about an anti-Muslim video having been the cause of it all.

Has the president unilaterally rewritten the Obamacare law, while ignoring the Congress that wrote it? Indeed, he has.

But would a Republican Party that failed and folded when it tried to use its legitimate power of the purse to defund Obamacare really stand firm in an Antietam battle to impeach a president of the United States?

Or is this just “beer talk”?

Impeachment is in the last analysis a political act.

The impeachment of Nixon was a coup d’etat by liberal enemies who, though repudiated and routed by the electorate in 1972, still retained the institutional power to break him and destroy his presidency.

And, undeniably, he gave them the tools.

In the case of Nixon, political enemies controlled both houses of the Congress. Washington was a hostile city. Though he had swept 49 states, Nixon lost D.C. 3-to-1. The bureaucracy built up in the New Deal and Great Society was deep-dyed Democratic.

Most crucially, the Big Media whose liberal bias had been exposed by Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew were hell-bent on revenge.

All three power centers — the bureaucracy, Congress, the Big Media — worked in harness to bring Nixon down.

No such powerful and hostile coalition exits today with Obama.

In 2008, Obama carried D.C. 24-to-1 over John McCain. The While House Correspondents Association has at times behaved like an Obama super PAC. Liberal Democrats dominate the bureaucracy and control the Senate.

Any Republican attempt at impeachment would go up against a stacked deck. And the GOP would be throwing away a winning hand for a losing one.

For while the American people have shown no interest in impeaching Obama, they are coming to believe they elected an incompetent executive and compulsive speechmaker who does not know what the presidency requires and who equates talk with action.

With the economy shrinking 3 percent in the first quarter, with Obama sinking in public approval, and with the IRS, NSA and VA scandals bubbling, why would Republicans change the subject to impeachment?

The effect would be to enrage and energize the Democratic base, bring out the African-American vote in force and cause the major media to charge the GOP with a racist scheme to discredit and destroy our first black president.

Does the GOP really want a fight on that turf, when they currently hold the high ground? If you are winning an argument, why change the subject?

If the nation is led to believe Republicans seek to gain the Senate so they can remove Barack Obama from office after a GOP-led impeachment, then Republicans are not likely to win the Senate.

Maybe that is why the Democrats are wailing about impeachment.

Republicans should take away the football.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.”

“In the case of Nixon, political enemies controlled both houses of the Congress. Washington was a hostile city. Though he had swept 49 states, Nixon lost D.C. 3-to-1. The bureaucracy built up in the New Deal and Great Society was deep-dyed Democratic.”

Impeachment, as well as war criminal, has been bandied about too much and lost it’s shock value. Now it seems to just be a sign of bad behavior as nobody really expects impeachment to happen. I suspect history will give Obama a bad review, but only if the next president isn’t worse.